Normal people are the easiest to manipulate. Too smart and they have an annoying tendency to catch wind of your plans, too dumb and, in the words of a certain pirate, "You can never tell when they are about to do something incredibly...stupid."

If Scarab colours her sketch, we can re-size it and use it as Suzie's character image.

Normal people are the easiest to manipulate. Too smart and they have an annoying tendency to catch wind of your plans, too dumb and, in the words of a certain pirate, "You can never tell when they are about to do something incredibly...stupid."

Huh. Let's have a look then... wait, this looks like a missing page from the journal...---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sir, there's this rather odd man at the door. Or possibly a woman. He's so old it's hard to tell.

Well, what could possibly go wrong? It's a cheap price, and it's not like this stuff really means anything!

PAH-SHAWWWW! Well, thanks anyway, you can go now.

So... Nothing to worry about then, sir?

Hardly. I mean, really, can you imagine Susie just becoming a normal girl?----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Huh. I don't remember this happening. Yet it's in my handwriting...

You forgot it already? Even for something like this, that's not like you, sir.

Wait... this actually happened? But...

Good morning daddy!

Mornin', Su... hold on. Did you put your winter dress back on?

...no, I never took it off. But now you mention it, it would be good to get into something lighter for the spring...

...dad? What's wrong...?

Your stats are different too! You're... smaller, yet somehow tougher... WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?!?!----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Meanwhile, in the past, the "Fortune Teller" removes his hood and his mask, revealing... an older Anura!

"That should do it. If nothing else, it'll change Susie's fate. An ordinary housewife... to him of all people to boot. She can do better than that."

Nodding, the Father Temporal fades into the shadows...----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------((OOC))

Yup, I'm bringing this back. Since I lost the save, I had to re-do the entire game up to this point. But there were a few differences; at some point I must have taken Susie off the Robust Diet in the original run. Here I didn't, so she has a higher constitution score. This also means I have less money than before, although for some reason she actually weighs less in the new timeline.

Also, I got a random event. The fortune teller sometimes shows up and tells you what ending you'd get if the game ended right now. I took it and ran with it as the explanation for the changes to time. Maybe FT will show up again.

Anyway, where do you guys think I should go from here? I could keep giving her self-defence courses and building up her body with farm work, which is self sustaining, but kinda boring. We could try a different route, like making her into a Proper Lady with Babysitting and Church work and Poetry and Protocol classes. I personally like the idea of making her into a mage, but magic classes are expensive and we're somewhat strapped for cash. One quick way to make money is to d̶u̶m̶p̶ ̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶w̶i̶l̶d̶e̶r̶n̶e̶s̶s̶ send her on an adventure to look for treasure! What do you guys think?